Climate Security: CCS Releases New Tool: Military Responses to Climate Hazards Tracker

Jun 6, 2023 | Tom Ellison and Erin Sikorsky, Council on Strategic Risks
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As temperatures continue to rise and drive extreme weather events that draw in militaries worldwide, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) is launching a new effort to monitor military actions in response to climate hazards: the Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) Tracker. Militaries are increasingly called upon to assist with wildfires, flood response, and other extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change. According to our tracker, since summer 2022, militaries in dozens of countries have responded nearly one hundred times to such hazards.